News coverage of major storms inevitably requires a photo or two of downed trees that crushed parked cars, and that tradition seems to go back to as long as there’s been cars on the road, as we see from The Old Motor‘s post this week on the New York/New England hurricane of 1938. But that’s not the only confluence of old cars and old hurricanes folks have come across while weathering Sandy. For instance, Stéphane Dumas pointed out the below video that shows the effects of Hurricane Hazel on Galt, Ontario, in 1954.

And Bill K. pointed out the below video showing an old Packard being rescued from the floodwaters that followed Hurricane Agnes in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, in 1972.

I’d request all you restorers and authenticity judges to notice the percentage of blackwalls vs. wide whites in the ’54 video. All tires freshly washed of course……
I lived this era and any time my parents saw whitewalls on a car at church they’d say that family were show-offs!